At the Library for Nov. 17

"Begonia Bribe" by Alyse Carlson (mystery) A beauty pageant for little girls - the Little Miss Begonia Pageant - has decided to hold their event in a Roanoke park. Camellia is called in to help deal with the botanical details, the cute contestants and their catty mothers. She soon realizes that the drama onstage is nothing compared to the judges row. There's jealousy, betrayal and a love triangle involving local newsman - and known lothario - Telly Stevens. And a mysterious saboteur is trying to stop the pageant from happening at all.

"Unseen" by Karin Slaughter (fiction) Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon, Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked, and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But undercover and cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him.

"Killer in Crinolines" by Duffy Brown (mystery) August in Savannah, Georgia, is hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat or from a cake knife in the back. That's how Simon Ambrose is found. When Reagan Summerside's friend, Chantilly Parker, is arrested for the murder, she vows to clear Chantilly's name.